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Davis Country brings together a fascinating collection of the
distinctive writings of H. L. (Harold Lenoir) Davis, one of the
Northwest's premier writers and perhaps the most famous Oregon
writer of his generation. His influence on Northwest literature is
comparable to Mark Twain's on American literature. Born in southern
Oregon's Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis spent his teen years in
Antelope and The Dalles working as a sheepherder, cattle puncher,
typesetter, and deputy sheriff. He began writing poetry during
World War I, but with the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, then
America's foremost literary critic, he switched to prose. He won
the prestigious Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine at age
twentyfive and is the only Oregonian ever to receive the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction, for his 1935 novel Honey in the Horn, which
Mencken called the best first novel ever published in America.
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